Let your quest for guidance lead you to our media selection. We offer a good selection of instructional materials ranging from beginner to advanced levels. Start your kids off right and teach them a craft they will love for the rest of their lives with a book full of simple and fun beading projects for children. Just starting yourself? That's okay! We offer books to get you started on the path to being a true bead-head! Once you have learned the basics, we offer a great selection of instructional materials with topics ranging from necklaces, decorative accessories, cheyenne or peyote stitches to beaded flowers. What ever you want to learn to do, we have the book, dvd or software to get you going!

John James needles are high quality and one of our most popular beading needle options. Standard beading needles are very fine and long. The eye of the needle is the same width as the rest of the needle. Choosing the correct beading needle is not an exact science, and different beaders will opt for different sizes and lengths of beading needles. Smaller beads such as seed beads require a slender beading needle with a narrow eye. Beading needle sizes 10 (thickest) through 15 (thinnest) work best. Sizes 10 through 12 work great for most standard seed bead projects, while size 15 works great for tiny seed beads such as 15/0 and macco tubes. If your project requires multiple passes through a bead, you will want to choose a thinner needle. Short sharp beading needles are best for embroidery projects and longer needles are great for loom work.